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Trivia: While the first movie was shot on film, this sequel was shot on digital video, given the extremely low budget. Writer/director Michael Cooney embraced the digital video look, but some distributors later tried to create the illusion that it was shot on film by adding subtle grain filters and artificially lowering the frame rate. Cooney has gone on record saying that the original "video look" is his preferred viewing method.

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Trivia: Ironically, much like the first film was shot in an unseasonably warm winter with little snow, this film was shot during an unseasonably rainy summer at a tropical island, resulting in little actual sunshine.

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Trivia: The movie was shot in 1994, but not released until 1997 because the original distributor went bankrupt.

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Trivia: Film debut of Shannon Elizabeth.

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Trivia: Ironically, the winter was unseasonably warm when the film was shot, with some days hitting 70 degrees, so most of the snow seen on the ground is completely fake.

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Trivia: Writer/director Michael Cooney has said that the budget for the entire film was roughly equal to just the catering budget for the 2003 film "Identity," which he also wrote.

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Trivia: In a tragic bit of irony, star Christopher Allport was killed in a freak avalanche in 2008.

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Trivia: The movie was inspired by a time writer/director Michael Cooney and some friends built a snowman while on vacation. The following morning, one of his friends told him she couldn't sleep because the snowman outside looked like it was eerily staring in her window, and it freaked her out. Cooney thought that, given the popularity of slasher and monster movies, a movie about a killer snowman could be fun, and he started developing the story.

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Trivia: The infamous "snowman rape" scene wasn't originally intended to be a sexual assault. As scripted, the killer snowman was simply meant to just be killing Jill by slamming her head over and over into the wall. However, given the low-budget effects and the fact she was in the shower, it unintentionally looked like the snowman was "humping" her while beating her against the wall. Since there was no way around this, they tried to play it off as a dark joke by looping in goofy music and sexual puns.

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Trivia: Originally intended to be a $30 million thriller directed by Renny Harlin. When Harlin left the production and the budget was slashed to a fraction of the original cost, writer Michael Cooney took over as the new director and decided to rewrite the movie into a campy horror-comedy, since he wouldn't have the budget for all of the scripted effects sequences.

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Trivia: The first "Critters" film to be rated R, as well as the first film in the series to not feature actors Don Keith Opper and Terrance Mann.

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Trivia: Dee Wallace has said her character "Aunt Dee" was originally meant to be Helen Brown from the original film (and she still considers them to be the same), but the character had to be renamed for legal reasons since this film and the original were made by different studios.

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Trivia: The Krite alien language is actually just a mashup of syllables and words from multiple Earth languages, including French and Japanese.

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Trivia: The Krite that grows to human size is usually obscured, shot from a distance, or only seen for brief instances. This is because the crew wasn't happy with the way the costume looked. While the Krites looked great as tiny creatures, once they reached human-sized, they looked unintentionally hilarious. The crew had to shoot it in such a way to make it feel like a threat without directly showing it too much. This is also why the Krites don't grow that large in any of the sequels.

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Trivia: The cutting-edge "bullet time" effect was achieved by arranging 120 still cameras around the subject on a green-screen stage. Every camera would take a photo in sequence over a (very) short span of time, and the photos were then arranged, creating the illusion that time was slowed down and the camera was moving inhumanly fast. Early frame-interpolation software was also used to smooth the shot, since gaps between the cameras made the movement a bit jittery. A CGI background was then added.

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Trivia: The movie explains that Mega City One has a population of 800 million people and 17,000 serious crimes are reported daily, which works out to about 6.2 million per year. The current US population is roughly 331 million people, and over 9 million crimes are reported every year, which works out to nearly 25,000 per day. This actually means that Mega City One is significantly safer than the present day United States when it comes to the crime rate.

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Trivia: Part of the genesis of the film was when director Tad Stones became fascinated with the character Iago. He was talking to a producer about the characters he wanted to include and mentioned Iago, and was told that Iago was trapped in a lamp. This made Stones think about how Iago might escape and what he'd do after he got out... which eventually morphed into the plot for the movie. In fact, the working title was originally "Iago Returns," before "The Return of Jafar" was settled on.

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Trivia: To date, this is the only film ever directed by Dean Cundey. Cundey, an award-winning cinematographer who has worked on classic films such as "Halloween," "Back to the Future" and "Jurassic Park," was personally approved by star Rick Moranis for the job. However, Cundey learned that he wasn't particularly fond of the directing process, and chose to go back to being a cinematographer after the film's completion.

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Trivia: The final live-action film to star Rick Moranis before he mostly retired from acting to take care of his kids after his wife's unfortunate passing. Moranis is however tentatively attached to appear in a legacy sequel titled "Shrunk," though the film has been stuck in development hell for some time.

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Trivia: The film was widely despised, including by its own star Halle Berry. She hated it so much, she actually showed up to accept her "Worst Actress" Razzie award in-person (while also jokingly holding her "Best Actress" Oscar for "Monster's Ball"), and referred to the film as a "piece of shit" and "god-awful" during her acceptance speech.

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